Israel Galván

The meeting between Marlene Monteiro Freitas and Israel Galván feels inevitable, albeit belated. An invisible thread seems to connect the Cape Verdean choreographer and the Sevillian bailaor, bringing them together for a unique project. Face to face, they develop a new and immediate form of communication: a moment of pure joy and humour, an animated conversation based solely on the language of the body.

Born into deeply traditional families with high expectations of them, Israel Galván and Mohamed El Khatib had to adopt a variety of tactics with regards to their heritage in order to carve their own path in the world of artistic creation. Making use of their bodies as living archives, the duo of artists joins forces in the making of a "documentary dance" in which, in the shadow of their respective father figures, the intimate and the political become inextricably linked.